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Cromwell Argus, Volume IV, Issue 185, 27 May 1873, Page 7

That, one half of the world doesn't know how the other halt* Jives, is an old saying ; but it would puzzle the whole world to say how rhe young gentleman is to live, who, out, of an income of Il>s Cd a week, was ordered by tlm Sydney Water Police Magistrate the other day to pay 3s (id a week for the maintenance of his illegitimate child. The mother and father in this case were little more than girl and boy, and their interesting offspring has scarcely a v"ry bright prospect before it on its income of 6d a day. The p ternity was disputed, but proved irrcfragaMy by an old lady evidently well used to that sort of thingj who deposed that when the alleged father was first introduced to his son" and heir, he recognised it instantly as his by a peculiar indentation on the tip of the nose. "Ah !" exclaimed the delighted parent, -I knowits mine. That's exactly where 1 got hit with a cricket-ball fest spiing."